Revelation 4:11
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Posted on 08/04/2005 7:23:17 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
It has long been considered the most compelling question in our history: Where do human beings come from? Although life has existed for millions of years, only in the past century-and-a-half have we begun to use science to explore the ancestral roots of our own species. The search for the ultimate answer has taken a number of twists and turns, with careers made and broken along the way. APE TO MAN is the story of the quest to find the origins of the human race -- a quest that spanned more than 150 years of obsessive searching. APE TO MAN is a world premiere on The History Channel on August 7 at 9-11 pm ET/PT.
The search for the origins of humanity is a story of bones and the tales they tell. It was in 1856 that the first bones of an extinct human ancestor were encountered, unearthed by a crew of unskilled laborers digging for limestone in Western Europe. The find, which would be known as Neanderthal Man, was seeing the light of day for the first time in more than 40,000 years At the time, the concept of a previous human species was virtually unthinkable. Yet just a few years later, Charles Darwin's work The Origin of Species first broached the subject of evolution, and by the end of the nineteenth century, it had become the hottest topic of the age. Adventurers had embarked on the search for the Missing Link, the single creature that represented the evolutionary leap from apes to humans. APE TO MAN examines the major discoveries that have led us to the understanding we have today, including theories that never gained full acceptance in their time, an elaborate hoax that confused the scientific community for years, and the ultimate understanding of the key elements that separate man from apes.
Highlights of APE TO MAN include:
* Reenactments of the work of Eugene DuBois, an Amsterdam physician who left his practice in 1890 in search of the Missing Link and found what would be called Homo erectus, a 500,000-year old ape-like skeleton, in Sumatra. DuBois' assertion that he has found the Missing Link results in his rejection by the scientific community. Only later did people realize the impact of the discovery.
* Examination of the key elements that marked the evolution from ape to man, including the ability to walk upright, the use of tools, the harnessing of fire, the ability to form communities, and the ability to reason and plan.
* The story of Piltdown Man, a skeleton discovered in England in 1912 which was, for a time, considered by many to be the definitive Missing Link, but later discovered to be one of the greatest hoaxes in the history of science.
* Raymond Dart's 1924 discovery of Taung Child, a fossilized skull of a child in Africa that is nearly two million years old. It was the oldest finding to date, but was completely ignored by the scientific community because people still believed in the erroneous story of Piltdown Man.
Two key shifts in thinking led to our understanding today -- the shift to Africa as the birthplace of the human species; and the shift from thinking that brain size was the driving force of evolution, to the understanding that the use of tools was really the key step.
Executive Producer for The History Channel is Marc Etkind. APE TO MAN is produced by Lion Television for The History Channel. Executive Producer is Bill Locke. Producer is Anna Thomson. Director is Nic Young.
Revelation 4:11
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> Where do human beings come from?
In an explosive surprise, the show is going to finally
answer this question by revealing the fossilized
remains of an ancient creature they named "Stork 1".
Even some threads of the original delivery diaper were found.
Parsing the answers to that removes masks..
Answer:
Rocks?
/sarcasm
Love your nic!
Something, somewhere went terribly right
Kidding of course,(at least about the monkey part)
bump for later
Silly, it's clams, not rocks!
:-)
:-)
For the record, the title of this thread was modified - I posted the entire actual title.
GOD!
Bill Locke
Executive Producer
Bill Locke's work for Lion covers a variety of programming but he specialises in history shows. Recently he has worked on The Four Minute Mile for the BBC, Weapons That Made Britain, presented by Mike Loades for Channel 4 and Love, Drugs and Stereotypes for The International HIV/AIDS Alliance. Bill is currently working on the second series of the highly successful heritage series, Britain's Finest.
Last year Bill was the executive producer of Some Of My Best Friends Are... for Channel 4 Religion. He was the series producer of Royal Deaths and Diseases for Channel 4, The Tower, the very successful eight part series about the history of the Tower of London also for Channel 4 and Hitler's Britain for Five which won a Cine Golden Eagle. In an earlier spell with Lion, Bill series produced LAX, a three part series behind the scenes at Los Angeles International Airport for A&E / Five, and directed Naked Eurovision, a light-hearted portrait of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Prior to joining Lion, Bill spent a season as series producer of Meet The Ancestors, BBC2's high rating archaeology series.. From 1995-97 Bill lived in Ethiopia, making films for the BBC World Service and a variety of Non-Governmental Organisations, including the United Nations. Before living in Africa, Bill worked in BBC children's television, working for 4 years as a studio and location director on the flagship show Blue Peter.
http://www.liontv.co.uk/com_exec.html
There are no such thing as humans. They are just figments of your imagination.
Now shut your five eyes and go to sleep little one
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